THE PRESIDENCY: Appeasement

Franklin Roosevelt, master of words,
is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his
acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company
bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted
reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin
and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as
applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement"
sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now
sought to apologize.